Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-11
THE TREATY WITH RUSSIA
WHAT NlHlLlsT HARTMAN HAS TO
SAY or IT.

an Infamy-Awful Tortures Inflicted by
the Gar to Extort Confession america
Model for the Russians.
NEW York, April 1.-THE publication in
the World of the new treaty negotiated by
Secretary Bayard between the nit.si States
and Russia has attracted universal attention
and caused great deal of comment. The
treaty has received the signatures Of T. F.
Bayard, secretary of state, and Charles D.
Struve, Russian minister, at Washington,
and has been forwarded to ST. Petersburg
for the approval Of the car. There is little
doubt that he will approve it. His agents
have been endeavoring to obtain such a
treaty with this government for number
of years
The treaty will go into operation as soon
as it receives the cars approval and remain
in force until congress convenes in Decem-
Der. Then it will rest with the senate to
ratify or reject the treaty.
Leo Hartman, the Russian Nihilist, who
came to this country four years ago to es-
cape the emissaries of the car. and who has
been the subject of some diplomatic CORE
spondence between the two countries, said
yesterday that the proposed treaty was an
States. No monarchal government in
Europe or the world could be induced to
grant the concessions readily given to-
Russia by our state department.. It was
surprising, he said, that the country pro-
Tossing to represent the embodiment of lib
erty should be the first to bow to the will of
a despotic power.
In this respect the state department had
gone farther than the most aristocratic gov
ernments in making political offenders sub
ject to extradition. 1T is direct violation
it seems to me, y he continued, "of the letter
and spirit or the constitution. Under this
treaty a man can be arrested by the Russian
police as easily in the United States as in
Russia. All the safeguards for the protection
of the liberties of the people are thrown
down. don't believe that the American
people are in sympathy with such a treaty.
The state department can't represent the
popular will OF this country.
sSince the publication of the treaty an as
sooiation has been formed here called the
the Russian American National league l
have been elected president. In two weeks
we will have membership of 1000, ana be-
tore the end of the year it will be increased
to 10000. The object of the association is to
protect the interests Of Russians coming to
this country, and to help our friends at home
in their struggle for freedom. We admit all
nationalities of Russians. Russia's emanci-
patton from the yoke of tyranny is not far
distant. The movement is steadily progress
ing, until now it has penetrated even to the
czar's own household. The ratification or
this new treaty on the part of the American
government Will not be such a serious blow
to the growth of Nihlism in Russia as might
be supposed. Nothing can st % the spread of
Nihilism in RUSSIA The beginning of Mill
ism in Russia dates from what is known as
the Decemvrists, revolt under Car Nicholas,
That was suppressed or put down for the
time being. -.
"The next outbreak was led by Karakosoff
which resulted in the killing of Gar Alex
ander Ii. Six months later Netchayeffe
headed another uprising, and then we come
down to the recent attempt on the life of the
car. Following each uprising. the most
strenuous efforts were made to crush out
Nihilism. fortunes of the most horrible and
revolving kind We're resorted to, families
were separated and in many instances babies
and young children were torn from their
parents and put on the rack to force their
parents to confess Hundreds of infants and
children have been butchered by the car in
this way. WE'LL in spite of the torture and
persecution Nihilism has been steadily on the
increase When you understand what the
advocates of liberty have undergone in an
oppressed country you will readily see that
their onward course cannot be retarded long
by this treaty
THE treaty, however, is an insult to
American institutions and we cannot believe
that it will be sustained by the mass of the
people here The leaders of the Nihilist
party in Russia are not anxious to have an
ayslum open for them to retreat to in Amer
lea They are brave men and understand